Chapter 21 Waiting for You to Get Pregnant with Me

Hearing the shout, the man turned around.

Isabel saw the pair of eyes she had been dreaming about day and night. Normally, they were as clear as amber, but now they were as cold as ice arrows.

"Are you healed from your injuries?" She shyly stepped forward to start a conversation. Just as she was about to put her arm around his, Luka dodged her arm, leaving her hand awkwardly frozen in mid-air.

Isabel was stunned. Although Luka had been lukewarm towards her in the past, he had never been so distant and cold.

"I'm fine. I've asked the sun to move the ceremony forward."

Isabel's heart, which had just fallen, was lifted up again. She pretended, "You are really anxious. It doesn't matter if it's later."

"Your Highness, stop doing unnecessary things." Luka interrupted her with a cold expression and sharp eyes. "Otherwise I will do whatever it takes..."

Meanwhile, in the Soter Republic, Ancient Human Research Center.

Zong Fang was sitting on the sofa holding Qiao Susu. At the moment, he seemed to be reading a report, but in fact, his attention was on the girl in his arms.

Today he received an invitation, which was a paper-thin independent electronic screen, on which were played the photos of Luca and Isabel from childhood to adulthood, as well as the location and time of the ceremony. Since he became close to her, he had many guesses about the relationship between her and Luca, and now was a good opportunity to test her attitude.

Qiao Susu took the invitation and looked at it very seriously.

She had mixed feelings. Although she knew this day would come, she didn't expect it to be so soon. She was still pregnant with his baby, but he was going to "marry" someone else. Thinking of this, she subconsciously reached out and touched her round belly.

Zongfang saw her movements, hugged her from behind, and stroked her pregnant belly with his big hands.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

She shook her head, yawned, and pretended not to care and said, "I'm thinking about what gift to give."

Zongfang took the invitation from her hand and threw it aside, kissing her ear and asked, "Do you mind?"

"What do you mind?"

Zongfang stopped the intimate behavior and looked at him calmly and doubtfully.

"He had a child with you, but now he has to become the mate of another female. Do you really not care at all?"

She lowered her eyes and remained silent. On the surface, she showed no reaction, but in fact her mind was working rapidly.

Seeing her with her head down and silent, the man thought she was sad, and his expression immediately turned cold. He pinched her chin with his hand and forced her to raise her head.

"Sicoses can't beat me, how about I help you tie him up?" Zongfang took off his glasses, his narrow and long phoenix eyes smiled, and he looked good-tempered. "It just so happens that you are about to give birth, so you should want to see him, right?"

Qiao Suisui's heart was filled with alarm. The softer this man smiled, the angrier he was.

She still had her eyelids drooped, expressionless, with a hint of sadness at the corners of her eyes. She said coldly, "Okay. Go and bring him here now."

Zongfang grabbed her neck, with a hint of anger on his face. "Do you really want him to be by your side?"

Qiao Sui Sui did not resist, nor did she look at him, she just cried silently. Zong Fang looked at her reaction, frowned slightly, and could not help but lighten the strength in his hands.

"Why are you crying? I tied him up and brought him here. Are you not satisfied?"

After saying that, Qiao Susu cried even harder, tears streaming down like beads from a broken string. She bit her lower lip, and the tip of her nose was red, which made people want to bully her but also made people feel soft-hearted.

"I was drugged with an aphrodisiac when I was being auctioned off, and when I woke up I found myself in his palace. If you hadn't brought me back, I wouldn't even know I was pregnant." Qiao Susu choked up as if she couldn't continue.

"Did he force you?" Zong Fang asked with a frown.

She didn't answer, but just cried silently. None of these words were false, because Zong Fang was suspicious and perceptive. Lying in front of him, no matter how realistic it was, would be easily exposed, so Qiao Sui Sui only told the truth, but she selectively told part of it and concealed the other part.

The weapon of a high-level liar is sincerity.

Zong Fang hugged her, let her head rest on his shoulder, and gently stroked her head with his hand. At this time, his voice had slowed down, not as deliberate as before, and no longer angry.

"I don't know this. You should have told me. Qiao Qiao, it's my fault."

She pounded his chest lightly, tears welling up in her eyes, looking angry and blaming. "I've said it before, this child is mine alone, and has nothing to do with anyone else."

Zong Fang hugged her and comforted her, not mentioning Luka. Qiao Sui Sui buried her head in his shoulder, her eyes that were red from crying just now were now calm.

The invitation card thrown on the ground was still showing photos. When Qiao Susu saw one of them, her eyes suddenly flashed.

The photo was of a romantically decorated venue, which seemed to be used for a ceremony. What caught Susu's attention was the word GG made of flowers in the corner of the photo.

On the day they went to the Royal Hospital, Liberi later asked what the health bar was, and she briefly told him a few popular terms used in games. The original meaning of GG was that the loser gave up, and it was later posted on the public screen to express ridicule. Since popular terms were not recorded in the ancient human language system, Zong Fang did not notice that this was a code that only she and Liberi knew in this world.

Qiao Suisui realized that Liberi was hinting at her in this covert way.

She lowered her eyes to hide her thoughts. After a while, she stood up from the man's arms, looked at him with red eyes and asked, "Do you dislike the baby in my belly?"

Zongfang stroked her hair and was rarely silent.

"If you really dislike me, why don't you just send me back to Scorsese."

"You're dreaming."

Zongfang hugged her and held her waist tightly with his big hands.

"No male will raise another male's child, especially a social beastman like a lion. Once he finds that his cubs have the scent of other males, he will exile them at best, or bite them to death at worst."

She was quite surprised and asked, "Even though liveborn cubs are so rare and precious nowadays, would they still do this?"

"The Scorsese family is an inheritance system, passed down from one generation to the next, and they will never allow any uncertainty in blood relations. I am a snake beastman, I like to be alone, and there are not so many rules. I can raise his children for you, but that means that they will lose the opportunity to return to the family forever, which is the cruelest thing for a lion."

Sui Sui was a little surprised after hearing this. She didn't expect that Zong Fang, who was always cold and domineering, would consider the cubs so long-term.

Zongfang kissed her brow and eyes, and said softly: "Qiao Qiao, you don't have to worry about this kind of thing, just focus on giving birth. I will take care of it."

"How to deal with it?"

"If you want to raise us, then do so. How can I not afford to raise a few cubs? As for whether they will return to the tribe when they grow up, let them decide for themselves."

Well, a little bit of fatherly love but not much.

Qiao Suisui said, "What if I don't want to keep them around?"

Zong Fang's beautiful almond-shaped eyes twinkled, and when he heard her having this idea, a slight joy rose in his eyes.

"Then I'll pack them up and throw them back to Osland."

He buried his head in her neck and smelled that familiar scent. He felt calm inside and even his chest was filled.

"Qiao Qiao, when you get pregnant with mine, we'll raise it together."

(End of this chapter)